World-News

A new study just published in the journal Science confirms a significant decrease in the numbers and variety of pollinating insects in Europe as well as an associated decline of the wild plants they service.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072406H.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bees
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=bees

Global free trade talks, billed as a once-in-a-generation chance to boost growth and ease poverty, collapsed on Monday after nearly five years of haggling, and resuming them could take years. The suspension of the World Trade Organization's Doha round came after major trading powers failed in a last-ditch bid to overcome differences on reforming world farm trade. The European Union and India firmly pointed the finger at the United States for the final breakdown.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072406A.shtml

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0724-28.htm


Informant: binstock

Sender: info@million-against-nuclear.net

Summer 2006 - Campaign Update for People Who Signed

MORE THAN 420.000 PEOPLE SIGNED HELP US REACH THE MILLION - ASK THREE FRIENDS!

Dear friends for a nuclear-free Europe,

Some time ago you have signed the European petition "1 Million Europeans Against Nuclear Power". We have now gathered well over 420.000 signatures. More and more come in every day, both by website and on paper. This summer, signatures will be gathered in more than 25 European countries in churches, concerts, markets and festivals. Through the websites we are receiving thousands of digital signatures per week!

Nuclear power is still the most dangerous, dirty, expensive, irresponsible and unsustainable energy source there is. Politicians and industry try to convince us there is no alternative, but we know there is: energy saving & massive investments in renewables.

It is very important that many people say NO to nuclear power. But one million is a LOT. Please help us to reach the million and ask THREE of your friends to sign the petition as well! Below you will find an email message which you can easily send to your friends if they haven't signed yet.

If you would like to do MORE (yes please!), contact us at info@million-against-nuclear.net. Translations of the petition are available in Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Macedonian, Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian. Please see the website http://www.million-against-nuclear.net for more news and downloads.

Thanks...a million!

Frank van Schaik
Wendela de Vries
One Million Europeans Against Nuclear Power

Security agents in Jordan are torturing terrorism suspects on behalf of the United States in hopes of forcing confessions, the human rights watchdog Amnesty International contended in a new report Monday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072406P.shtml

"The fact that the Court decided the case at all in the face of Congress's efforts to strip the Court of jurisdiction is remarkable in itself. That the Court then broke away from its history of judicial deference to security claims in wartime to rule against the President, not even pausing at the argument that the decisions of the commander in chief are 'binding on the courts,' suggests just how troubled the Court's majority was by the President's assertion of unilateral executive power. That the Court relied so centrally on international law in its reasoning, however, is what makes the decision truly momentous," writes David Cole.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072406O.shtml

An independent investigation has found that imprisoned former congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham took advantage of secrecy and badgered Congressional aides to help slip items into classified bills that would benefit him and his associates.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072406N.shtml

Iraq's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, meets Tony Blair in London today as violence in Iraq reaches a new crescendo and senior Iraqi officials say the break up of the country is inevitable.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072406K.shtml

"There is no way to tell exactly how this Middle East upheaval is going to unfold, and making any sort of prediction is a dangerous game," writes William Rivers Pitt. "There are, however, a number of disparate factors threaded through this situation that, if allowed to coalesce, will create an unspeakably dangerous convulsion that will be felt all across the globe."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072406J.shtml

I am helping to start a grassroots movement on behalf of free speech. When enough of us speak out, we can begin to make the needed differences. Please take this action. The children's future and very lives depend on you. Don't let them silence us. Please visit http://www.DontSilenceThePeople.org .

mofmars


Don't Silence The People - visit Don't Silence The People .org

What ever happened to free speech?

Recently Congressional offices began implementing a new technology, called Logic Puzzles, that will effectively block millions of emails from the constituents they represent.

http://www.DontSilenceThePeople.org

In a time when our political culture is increasingly becoming a pay to play exercise, any limit placed on the ability of ordinary citizens to make their voices heard is an unacceptable threat to our democratic principles and First Amendment rights.

A number of members of Congress have already implemented this new technology, and many more will soon. Join us to urge Congress to reject this threat to free speech and free assembly and make sure the people are not silenced. Please visit:
http://www.DontSilenceThePeople.org

And please tell your friends to do the same.

The U.S. Senate will vote later this week on a bill to open eight million acres off of Florida's west coast to offshore drilling. The safety of our oceans, cleanliness of our beaches, and the health and lives of our marine wildlife are in danger!

Click here to write your Senators today to demand that they protect our coasts and urge them to work towards a clean energy future!
http://ga3.org/campaign/OCSJuly2006

A few weeks ago we alerted you to a U.S. House bill that would do away with 25 years of crucial coastal protections and potentially allow widespread oil and gas drilling off our shores.

Despite strong and outspoken opposition from thousands of SOE activists like you, the House voted to pass this disastrous bill which was written by Big Oil's favorite Congressman, Representative Richard Pombo (R-CA).

Now our hopes lie with the Senate, which still has an opportunity to reject Big Oil’s attempt to open our coasts to drilling and to push for real solutions to our energy crisis – solutions that embrace innovative new energy-efficient technologies, cut pollution, and reduce our dependence on oil.

Our coasts and marine waters are destinations for thousands of vacationing families each year, sanctuary for fish and wildlife and a critical part of America's "sea to shining sea" natural heritage. They are the economic lifeblood for thousands of tourism and fishing communities, providing billions of dollars of economic activity and millions of jobs.

Oil and gas drilling would ruin our coasts and beaches. From 1990-1999, 1.8 million gallons of oil were spilled from offshore drilling platforms and pipelines in U.S. waters--an average of almost 500 gallons a day.

Additionally, each offshore operation produces 214,000 pounds of air pollutants each year, and tens of thousands of pounds of mercury have been dumped around Gulf oil rigs.

Click here to urge your Senators to vote NO on opening our precious coasts to drilling! http://ga3.org/campaign/OCSJuly2006

Once you’ve contacted your Senators, please click here to tell at least three friends, family members or co-workers about this urgent issue and encourage them to join you in contacting their Senators.
http://ga3.org/campaign/OCSJuly2006/forward/

Thank you for your continued dedication to protecting our coasts and keeping our wildlife safe.

Sincerely,

Julie Waterman
Campaign Director,
SaveOurEnvironment.org
info@saveourenvironment.org

Evidence that under President Bush, the nation's tax collection agency robs from the poor and turns a blind eye to the rich.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/07/23/the_wealthys_irs.php

Scott Galindez calls on the Democratic Party leadership to stay away from Connecticut and let the people decide between a real Democrat, Ned Lamont, or the "Republican" candidate, Joseph Lieberman.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072406Z.shtml


http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lieberman

America's Future Foundation
by James N. Markels

07/23/06

But, contrary to NRO's rhetoric, we're not at war. At least not in a constitutional sense. And that's why the Supreme Court, although for somewhat the wrong reasons, got the right answer in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, where a military commission created to preside over a detainee's trial was stricken for being insufficient. During times of war a president is entitled to extra deference while prosecuting that war in order to ensure the best chances of victory. But in order for America to be at war, Congress has to declare it. That's a power expressly designated to Congress by the Constitution. We're not at war because NRO's writers think we're at war, nor because any president insists that we're at war...

http://tinyurl.com/nkxwa


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2006/tle377-20060723-03.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Boston Globe
by James Bovard

07/21/06

The federal government has inflated the 'No Fly List' to 200,000 names. But the list has nabbed more members of Congress than it has terrorists. US Senator Edward M. Kennedy and US Representative John Lewis have been inconvenienced by it, and anyone named David Nelson is likely to face a major interrogation each time he flies. Federal officials make it very difficult to correct the list, thus tormenting citizens who are guilty of nothing more than having a name resembling a name suspected sometime by some government official...

http://tinyurl.com/qyqvy


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Report

USA Today

07/23/06

The group Human Rights Watch said in a report released Sunday that U.S. military commanders encouraged abusive interrogations of detainees in Iraq, even after the Abu Ghraib prison scandal called attention to the issue in 2004. Between 2003 and 2005, prisoners were routinely physically mistreated, deprived of sleep and exposed to extreme temperatures as part of the interrogation process, the report said. 'Soldiers were told that the Geneva Conventions did not apply, and that interrogators could use abusive techniques to get detainees to talk,' wrote John Sifton, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch...

http://tinyurl.com/fr87s


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Christian Science Monitor

07/23/06

A floundering government campaign to crack down on militias and increasing sectarian killings have many Shiites turning to militias for protection, particularly radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's violent Mahdi Army. The US and British military have stepped up raids on its leadership after growing impatient with the new government's failure to arrest the militia's commanders. But Sunday, two suicide car bombs in the capital and one in the troubled northern oil city of Kirkuk killed a total of 60 Iraqis, as new Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki jetted off to Britain and the US for talks with Prime Minister Tony Blair and President George Bush on Iraq's crumbling security situation. Such violence only strengthens the hand of the militias...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0724/p06s01-woiq.html



Sectarian break-up of Iraq is now inevitable, admit officials
The Independent [UK]

07/23/06

The Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, meets Tony Blair in London today as violence in Iraq reaches a new crescendo and senior Iraqi officials say the break up of the country is inevitable. A car bomb in a market in the Shia stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad yesterday killed 34 people and wounded a further 60 and was followed by a second bomb in the same area two hours later that left a further eight dead. Another car bomb outside a court house in Kirkuk killed a further 20 and injured 70 people. 'Iraq as a political project is finished,' a senior government official was quoted as saying, adding: 'The parties have moved to plan B'...

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1193108.ece


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Lexington Herald-Leader

07/21/06

Four U.S. soldiers accused of murdering suspected insurgents during a raid in Iraq said they were under orders to 'kill all military age males,' according to sworn statements obtained by The Associated Press. The soldiers first took some of the men into custody because they were using two women and a toddler as human shields. They shot three of the men after the women and child were safe and say the men attacked them. 'The ROE (rule of engagement) was to kill all military age males on Objective Murray,' Staff Sgt. Raymond L. Girouard told investigators, referring to the target by its code name...

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/15094525.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

18. Juli 2006

Heute entscheidet der Gemeinsame Bundesausschuss, ob künstliches Insulin (kurzwirksame Insulinanaloga) weiter Kassenleistung bleibt. Erwartet wird, dass Insulinanaloga in Zukunft nicht mehr von den Kassen bezahlt werden - basierend auf einer Empfehlung des Institut für Qualität und Wirtschaftlichkeit im Gesundheitswesen (IQWiG), das im Auftrag der Bundesregierung seit 2004 den Nutzen medizinischer Leistungen für den Patienten untersucht. Die Pharmaindustrie lief im Vorfeld Sturm gegen diese Entscheidung und das IQWiG im allgemeinen und griff dabei tief in den Giftschrank...

http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php?p=281



Gemeinsamer Bundesausschuss entscheidet gegen die Pharmalobby

19. Juli 2006

Der Gemeinsame Bundesausschuss hat gestern wie erwartet entschieden, dass die Kosten für kurzwirksame Insulinanaloga von den Krankenkassen nicht mehr erstattet werden müssen.

http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php?p=282



Lobbyisten hinterfragen freiwilliges Lobby-Register

12. Juli 2006

Auch Lobbyisten stellen den Vorschlag der EU-Kommission in Frage, ein Lobbyistenregister nur auf freiwilliger Basis einzuführen. Dies zeigten zwei Veranstaltungen zur Europäischen Transparenzinitiative heute in Berlin.

http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php?p=279

Ein Kommentar

Nach dem Verzicht von Norbert Röttgen (CDU) auf den Posten als BDI-Hauptgeschäftsführer verschärft sich die Debatte über Abgeordnete mit Lobby-Nebentätigkeiten. Besonders im Zentrum steht Reinhard Göhner (CDU) sieht sich selbst Vorbild: „Es müßte im Gegenteil mehr Abgeordnete geben, die neben ihrem Mandat in der Wirtschaft arbeiten“. Aber in einer Demokratie kann die Einbeziehung diverser gesellschaftlicher Interessen nicht durch personelle Verflechtungen von Abgeordneten erfolgen.

Mehr: http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php?p=286

19. Juli 2006

Die Staatsanwaltschaft Karlsruhe hat Anklage wegen Vorteilsgewährung gegen den EnBW-Chef, Utz Claasen, erhoben. Claasen habe an Weihnachten sechs Mitgliedern der baden-württembergischen Landesregierung und einem Staatssekretär der Bundesregierung WM-Tickets im Wert von über 2000 Euro geschickt, zusammen mit handschriftlichen persönlichen Wünschen und dem Dank für die gute Zusammenarbeit.

http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php?p=283



Weiterer Ex-Politiker bei EnBW

12. Juli 2006

Mit dem ehemaligen baden-württembergischen Sozialminister Andreas Renner (CDU) beschäftigt EnBW in Zukunft einen weiteren Ex-Politiker. Renner soll in Zukunft laut Stuttgarter Nachrichten Konzernbevollmächtigter für regenerative Energien bei EnBW sein.

http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php?p=280

Fetisch Lohnnebenkosten

„Es gibt wohl keinen Glaubenssatz, der in Deutschland ähnlich viele Anhänger hat, wie der, dass sinkende Lohnnebenkosten automatisch zu neuen Arbeitsplätzen führen. Seit Jahren richtet sich die Politik an diesem Credo aus…“ Kolumne von Sebastian Dullien in Financial Times Deutschland vom 21.7.06 http://www.ftd.de/meinung/leitartikel/98074.html


Aus: LabourNet, 24. Juli 2006

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Der Fetisch der zu hohen Lohnnebenkosten muss entzaubert werden. Die bisherigen Reformen der sozialen Sicherungssysteme sind eher finanzielle Verschiebemanöver, als dass sie ein solides Fundament schafften.

Beitrag von Ursula Engelen-Kefer dokumentiert bei den NachDenkSeiten http://www.nachdenkseiten.de/cms/front_content.php?client=1&lang=1&idcat=7&idart=2010


Aus: LabourNet, 16. August 2006

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Mantra »Lohnnebenkosten«

Info-Grafik Sozialpolitik von Johannes Steffen (Arbeitnehmerkammer Bremen) vom 29.08.2006 (pdf) http://www.arbeitnehmerkammer.de/sozialpolitik/doku/01_aktuell/ticker/2006/2006_08_29_info_grafik_lohnnebenkosten.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 31. August 2006

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Das Märchen von den Lohnnebenkosten

Mantra "Lohnnebenkosten"

Info-Grafik von Johannes Steffen, Arbeitnehmerkammer Bremen, in einer Überarbeitung vom 11.12.06 (pdf) http://www.arbeitnehmerkammer.de/sozialpolitik/doku/01_aktuell/ticker/2006/2006_12_11_info_grafik_lohnnebenkosten.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 13. Dezember 2006

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Kapitale Hütchenspieler

„Mal offen, mal verdeckt: Lohnsenkungsstrategien der Unternehmerlobby kommen wie gehabt als Reformvorschläge daher. Es vergeht kein Monat, in dem nicht ein Repräsentant der Unternehmerlobby den angeblich zu hohen Anteil der Sozialabgaben an den Löhnen beklagt…“ Artikel von Hubert Zaremba in junge Welt vom 04.08.2007 http://www.jungewelt.de/2007/08-04/013.php


Aus: LabourNet, 7. August 2007



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lohnnebenkosten
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sozialabgaben

You may probably already know that tomorrow is the annual shareholders meeting by Vodafone. Sorry, don't, as yet, know where it is to be held but it could be a great opportunity for a demonstration!! Many of the shareholders are very unhappy with the performance of Vodafone and want to see the back of Sarin. Vodafone aren't doing well.

Trawling through bbc.co.uk and going into business site and looking at Vodafone, all kinds of things came up. Particularly heartbreaking, under the heading "Rural Africa joins mobile revolution"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4036503.stm is a picture of an African woman wielding a hoe under the shadow of a phone mast. "their land surrounds a 50 metre mobile telecommunication transmitter, part of a modern network which is gradually opening up some of Tanzania's poorest and most remote regions to mobile telecommunications.

3 operators, Vodacom, Celtel and Mobitel, are busy rolling out networks while a fourth, Zantel is based on the island of Zanzibar." Siemens is overseeing the building work of base stations in Tanzania. "Mr. Lyakurwa's team of riggers, all of whom are Tanzanian, scale the base stations, installing communications equipment, which link the towers and create a mobile network." There's lots more on this, too much to put on an email, but interesting and horrifying. Many of the very poor can hardly afford to eat, but will soon feel pressurised to buy a mobile. And we can bet the Operators won't tell them about the dangers of the technology - only how good it all is. Still on the bbc.co.uk business, did you know that Hutchison Whampoa which controls the 3UK network is suing one of its partners - the Dutch firm KPN. "We have instituted legal proceedings in London against KPN mobile for breach of contract and to claim damages for that breach" a Hutchison spokeswoman said. AND Hutchison have sent out a circular saying they have acquired the entire issued share capital of Indusind Telecom Network Ltd., (a company incorporated in India) Reading through that, it is interesting to note that one of the vendors is Hinduja TMT, (along with lnNetwork Entertainment, Kumbat and Pacific Horizon. (Is this the Hinduja that Blair and his cronies were associated with and there was a huge embarrassment?)

Where there's muck there's money, and the telecom industry, along with the politicians are very mucky. If you want to read loads and loads on the telecom businesses, use the bbc. site whilst it is still there.

Vivienne B.

"Informieren, die Praktiken der Herrscher transparent machen, da ist die erste Aufgabe des Intellektuellen. Die Vampire fürchten das Tageslicht wie die Pest." Diesen Satz schrieb Jean Ziegler, UNO-Sonderberichterstatter für das Recht auf Nahrung, in seinem Buch: "Das Imperium der Schande" auf Seite 286.

Jeder, der die Mobilfunklügen, die mit großem finanziellen Aufwand verbreitet werden, durchschaut sollte immer an diese Sätze denken und sich - nach seinen Möglichkeiten - an der Aufklärung der Mitbürger, Politiker, Ärzte usw. beteiligen. Die Unwissenheit der Bevölkerung über die Gefahren des Mobilfunks ist nämlich riesengroß! Wir wollen doch nicht tatenlos zusehen, wie die Gesundheit unserer Kinder und unsere eigene dem Götzen Gewinn geopfert wird!

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Bürgerinitiative Icking zum Schutz vor Strahlenbelastung
G. Pischeltsrieder

AND THAT COULD SPEED UP GLOBAL WARMING WITH 'INCALCULABLE CONSEQUENCES', SAYS ALARMING NEW RESEARCH

By Geoffrey Lean in Manaus and Fred Pearce
The Independent
July 23, 2006

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article1191932.ece

The vast Amazon rainforest is on the brink of being turned into desert, with catastrophic consequences for the world's climate, alarming research suggests. And the process, which would be irreversible, could begin as early as next year.

Studies by the blue-chip Woods Hole Research Centre, carried out in Amazonia, have concluded that the forest cannot withstand more than two consecutive years of drought without breaking down.

Scientists say that this would spread drought into the northern hemisphere, including Britain, and could massively accelerate global warming with incalculable consequences, spinning out of control, a process that might end in the world becoming uninhabitable.

The alarming news comes in the midst of a heatwave gripping Britain and much of Europe and the United States. Temperatures in the south of England reached a July record of 36.3C on Tuesday. And it comes hard on the heels of a warning by an international group of experts, led by the Eastern Orthodox "pope" Bartholomew, last week that the forest is rapidly approaching a "tipping point" that would lead to its total destruction.

The research carried out by the Massachusetts-based Woods Hole centre in Santarem on the Amazon river has taken even the scientists conducting it by surprise. When Dr Dan Nepstead started the experiment in 2002 by covering a chunk of rainforest the size of a football pitch with plastic panels to see how it would cope without rain he surrounded it with sophisticated sensors, expecting to record only minor changes.

The trees managed the first year of drought without difficulty. In the second year, they sunk their roots deeper to find moisture, but survived. But in year three, they started dying. Beginning with the tallest the trees started to come crashing down, exposing the forest floor to the drying sun.

By the end of the year the trees had released more than two-thirds of the carbon dioxide they have stored during their lives, helping to act as a break on global warming. Instead they began accelerating the climate change.

As we report today on pages 28 and 29, the Amazon now appears to be entering its second successive year of drought, raising the possibility that it could start dying next year. The immense forest contains 90 billion tons of carbon, enough in itself to increase the rate of global warming by 50 per cent.

Dr Nepstead expects "mega-fires" rapidly to sweep across the drying jungle. With the trees gone, the soil will bake in the sun and the rainforest could become desert.

Dr Deborah Clark from the University of Missouri, one of the world's top forest ecologists, says the research shows that "the lock has broken" on the Amazon ecosystem. She adds: the Amazon is "headed in a terrible direction".


Informant: NHNE

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/15104674.htm


Informant: NHNE

Now, in federal courthouses from Charleston, W.Va., to Denver, federal officials and state and local authorities are being forced to defend themselves against lawsuits challenging arrests and security policies. While the circumstances differ, the cases share the same fundamental themes. Generally, they accuse federal officials of developing security measures to identify, segregate, deny entry or expel dissenters.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072306C.shtml

Bombs exploded Sunday in Baghdad and the northern oil center of Kirkuk, killing more than 60 people and dramatically escalating tension as the prime minister left for Washington for talks on reversing the country's slide toward civil war.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072306A.shtml

Unexpected Russian opposition to key wording of a U.S.-backed Security Council draft resolution is straining international unity on how to deal with Iran's nuclear defiance, U.N. diplomats said Saturday.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-07-22-russia-iran_x.htm?csp=34


From Information Clearing House

Torture and other abuses against detainees in U.S. custody in Iraq were authorized and routine, even after the 2004 Abu Ghraib scandal, according to new accounts from soldiers.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14155.htm



“No Blood, No Foul”

Soldiers’ Accounts of Detainee Abuse in Iraq

Full report
http://hrw.org/reports/2006/us0706/


From Information Clearing House



U.S.: Soldiers Tell of Detainee Abuse in Iraq

The accounts reveal that detainee abuse was an established and apparently authorized part of the detention and interrogation processes in Iraq for much of 2003-2005. They also suggest that soldiers who sought to report abuse were rebuffed or ignored.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14156.htm

Iraq's parliament speaker Mahmud Mashhadani bitterly criticized US forces in Iraq, accusing them of "butchery" and demanded that they pull out of the country.

http://tinyurl.com/s364c


From Information Clearing House

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Iraqi Parliament Speaker: Invasion and Aftermath "Work of Butchers"

The speaker of the Iraqi Parliament criticized the American government's involvement in Iraq on Saturday, likening the invasion and its consequences to "the work of butchers" and demanding that the American authorities disentangle themselves from Iraq's political affairs.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072406D.shtml

Sun, 23/07/06

by Mary Earls

AN APPLICATION to erect a telecommunications mast on the roof of Villier’s Secondary School has been turned down by Limerick City Council recently.

Hutchison 3G Ireland Ltd had applied for planning permission to put a 5m white flagpole on the rooftop of the school with antennae last May.

However, concerned parents, school staff, nearby residents and Cllrs were outraged over the application and the possible adverse health conditions resulting from the mast’s radiation.

The main reasons cited for refusing the mast were health risks and property value.

Welcoming the decision, Pat O’Donovan, PRO with Better Environmental and Safer Telecommunications (BEST) told the Limerick Post this week that he was delighted with the "strong condemnation” of the mast from city planners."It is one of the most detailed condemnations of a mast planning application that I have come across in a long while. I am delighted that Limerick City Council was so broadminded. It was a very detailed refusal, like it wasn’t refused on weak grounds. And that is why I don’t think it will be appealed to An Bord Pleanala, especially with the strong opposition as well. They hit them very hard on the refusal,” he said.

A spokesperson from the planning department at City Hall explained that the application was turned down because the proposed mast, being on a school site and near housing, would "detract from the amenities of the area” and "depreciate the value of the residential properties”.

The mast would also be "potentially prejudicial to public health,”due to its location and proximity to residential areas, according to the planners.

And it would "materially convene” the provisions of two policies of the Limerick City Development Plan.

City planners also believed the development would set "an undesirable precedent for similar development in Limerick city and would be contrary to the proper planning and sustainable development of the area”.

Mr O’Donovan said that this refusal also marks "a change in thinking,” as regards planning for mobile phone masts.

"Before phone masts would just be planted down without question. But now the planners are inspecting every single aspect of a planning application much more seriously. Hutchison 3G will have some neck if they do appeal this application because of the strong wording of the refusal and the level of opposition. Any level minded person wouldn’t take this further,” he said.

He said that they were also delighted that the planning department stated that it would depreciate the value of property - "as this is something that does really affect house prices in an area”.

There was also widespread condemnation over the fact that the Board of management at the school issued a letter saying that they "consented to this planning application based on research and subject to all current Health and Safety guidelines”.

And there were also reports that staff, parents and students at Villier’s School were reluctant to complain about the proposed 3G Mast, because of alleged intimidation.

Mr O’Donovan said at the time that money was the driving force behind the plan as the school would have received a windfall of thousands of euro, if the planning permission was approved.

A student at Villier’s secondary school had told the Limerick Post that many parents were considering sending solicitor’s letters to management holding them directly responsible for any adverse health effects they may suffer from the planned installation of the 3G mast on the school’s roof.

And the student, who doesn’t want to be named, said that the students had planned a protest in September if the planning is appealed to An Bord Pleanala.

Former Mayor, Cllr Michael Hourigan, who attended a public BEST meeting for people who were opposed to the mast, said that he is also delighted with the decision. And he said that he was shocked by the many negative reports of the effect of mobile phone masts on the health and well-being of people living beside them, which he heard at the meeting.

Mr O’Donovan explained that many people attending the meeting who lived in close proximity to a mast talked about the "constant headaches, fatigue, nausea and a sensation of burning in their heads”.

And he claimed that there were also higher instances of cancer and people suffering from other diseases when they lived near a mast.

BEST is continuing to hold protest marches against mobile phone masts around the country - with a recent one in Ennis attracting over 1,000 people, including many Limerick people.

In Limerick the Kilmeedy mast application is still with Limerick County Council, and both the Broadford and Carrigkerry (near Ardagh) ones have been refused by the local authority and are being appealed to An Bord Pleanala.

© Limerick Post Newspapers 2006

http://www.limerickpost.ie/dailynews.elive?id=7528&category=Daily-Sun

http://www.thenewamerican.com/birchblog/index.php?m=07&y=06&entry=entry060720-151018


Informant: Lew Rockwell

http://tjh.elequity.com/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=189

FRANKENFOODS - genetically modified plant foods and livestock
http://tjh.elequity.com/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=191

Dog Food Producer To Avoid Genetically-Manipulated Ingredients
http://tjh.elequity.com/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=193

Safety aspects of genetically modified foods of plant origin
http://tjh.elequity.com/file.php/1/moddata/forum/8/332/20questions_en.pdf

Evaluation of Allergenicity of Genetically Modified Foods
http://tjh.elequity.com/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=195

Monsanto's Modus Operandi
http://www.omega-news.info/monsanto.htm

http://www.timesrecord.com/website/main.nsf/news.nsf/0/CEEB7B690B75DE64052571B20063FA00?Opendocument


From Global Network

http://www.nokilldeclaration.org/pages/1/index.htm


Informant: Sunshine

The Bush administration is quietly remaking the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, filling the permanent ranks with lawyers who have strong conservative credentials but little experience in civil rights, according to job application materials obtained by the Globe.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072306X.shtml

In part one of this Washington Post series Thomas E. Ricks analyzes the the war in Iraq and how early missteps by the Bush administration left troops unprepared for guerrilla warfare.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072306Y.shtml

Iraqi detainees were routinely subjected to beatings, sleep deprivation, stress positions and other forms of abuse by US interrogators, according to a Human Rights Watch report released on Sunday that offers first-hand accounts from three former soldiers.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072306Z.shtml

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1827041,00.html


Informant: binstock

http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html


Informant: binstock

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4862/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Watada

by Joyce Morrison

Will this great tradition of 4-H and FFA draw to an end when the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) is mandated and every animal is tagged and tracked? Many say “yes.” There is a strong feeling among small producers and hobby farmers that if the National Animal ID is forced upon them, George Orwells’ quote will become reality when he said, “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever." .....

http://www.newswithviews.com/Morrison/joyce35.htm

The PBS documentarian Ken Burns has been working for six years on "The War," a soldier's-eye view of World War II, and those who have seen parts of the 14-plus hours say they are replete with salty language appropriate to discussions of the horrors of war. Mr. Burns hopes PBS and public television stations will unite and "stand our ground" in opposing the self-censorship sought by FCC policy.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072206G.shtml

"In the United States today, there's a new twist to the familiar plot. Income inequality used to be about rich versus poor, but now it's increasingly a matter of the ultra rich and everyone else," writes Teresa Tritch.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072206F.shtml

The top US commander for the Middle East said Friday that the escalating sectarian violence in Baghdad had become a greater worry than the insurgency and that plans were being drawn up to move additional forces to the Iraqi capital.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072206E.shtml

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee announced it will hold a hearing with Bolton on July 27 and top Senate Republicans said they would move quickly to confirm President George W. Bush's pick.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072206C.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bolton

In a report to be released Monday, an American Bar Association task force will recommend that Congress pass legislation providing for some sort of judicial review of presidential signing statements. Some task force members want to give Congress the right to sue over the signing statements; other task force members will not characterize what sort of judicial review might ultimately emerge.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072206A.shtml

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Group decries Bush's law interpretations

Cambridge Daily-Jeff

07/23/06

President Bush's penchant for writing exceptions to laws he has just signed violates the Constitution, an American Bar Association task force says in a report highly critical of the practice. The ABA group, which includes a one-time FBI director and former federal appeals court judge, said the president has overstepped his authority in attaching challenges to hundreds of new laws...

http://tinyurl.com/g4yn9


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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American Bar Association Objects to Bush's "Signing Statements"

The American Bar Association said Sunday that President Bush was flouting the Constitution and undermining the rule of law by claiming the power to disregard selected provisions of bills that he signed. In a comprehensive report, a bipartisan 11-member panel of the bar association said Mr. Bush had used such "signing statements" far more than his predecessors, raising Constitutional objections to more than 800 provisions in more than 100 laws on the ground that they infringed on his prerogatives.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072406B.shtml

An Italian court has requested the extradition of 26 CIA agents . The court in Milan, which is leading the investigation, sent an extradition request to the public prosecutor’s office which would then pass it to Justice Minister Clemente Mastella, the daily said. Mastella should then in turn send it to his US counterpart.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=16635


From Information Clearing House

US to sell arms worth over $ 6 bn to Saudi Arabia

The United States Defence Department has notified Congress of possible arms sales such as helicopters, radios and armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia worth over $ 6 billion.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14131.htm



War is a racket!

Flush with cash and fearful, Gulf Arab states plan weapons buying binge

Deep fears about the war in Iraq and growing tension between the United States and Iran are driving the wealthy oil states of the Persian Gulf to go on shopping sprees for helicopters, ships and tanks, officials say.

http://tinyurl.com/3dob3z


From Information Clearing House

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War Is A Racket
http://tinyurl.com/qc5es


Informant: Wiseguy

This week, George Bush used his presidential veto to block a bill on stem cell research, saying he couldn't support the 'taking of innocent human life'. In Iraq, six civilians are killed by a US air strike, while casualties in Lebanon and Israel mount. George Bush (and Tony Blair) oppose UN calls for an immediate ceasefire.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14132.htm

By Associated Press

Four U.S. soldiers accused of murdering suspected insurgents during a raid in Iraq said they were under orders to "kill all military age males," according to sworn statements obtained by The Associated Press.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14126.htm

By Aljazera

Condoleezza Rice has described the plight of Lebanon as a part of the "birth pangs of a new Middle East" and said that Israel should ignore calls for a ceasefire.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14146.htm

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More “Birth Pangs” in Rice's “New Middle East”

By Mike Whitney

Assistant Secretary of State Nicholas Burns appeared on the Sunday talk shows defending Israeli aggression as the necessary path to achieving a “durable peace”. In the Orwellian-world of Bush doublespeak, a “sustainable cease-fire” is a tacit endorsement of perennial war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14282.htm

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Rice's Fallacy

What if Israel can't win militarily?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14300.htm

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Rice's Fantasy Ride
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/07/24/rices_fantasy_ride.php

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"Her description of the conflagration in Lebanon as the 'birthpangs of a new Middle East' was about as callous as it gets, matched only by Bush's remark that the conflict represents 'a moment of opportunity,'" writes Matthew Rothschild describing Condoleezza Rice's opposition to an immediate cease-fire.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072906Y.shtml

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Labor Pains of a Stillborn Foreign Policy

Robert Scheer argues that Condoleezza Rice, in calling the Israel-Lebanon crisis simply the "birth pangs of a new Middle East," underscored the Bush administration's blindness to the disastrous effects its foreign policy has wrought.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072606B.shtml

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The Birth of the New Middle East
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lind/lind102.html

The Birth Pangs of Rosemary’s Baby
http://www.lewrockwell.com/hornberger/hornberger96.html

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Loopholes let Israeli airstrikes continue

Condoleezza Rice's diplomatic success in arranging a 48 hour halt to Israeli air strikes contains two loopholes so large that it is having virtually no effect.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14297.htm



Israeli Air Strikes Resume

Israeli warplanes carried out strikes in southern Lebanon on Monday, hours after agreeing to temporarily halt air raids. Israel accidentally killed a Lebanese soldier when it hit a car it believed was carrying a senior Hezbollah official, the Israeli army said.

http://keyetv.com/national/topstories_story_212064923.html


From Information Clearing House

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Birth Pangs of What?

"President Bush sees the Israel-Hezbollah conflict as 'an opportunity.' Condoleezza Rice calls it 'the birth pangs of a new Middle East.' These statements are likely to be remembered by history as even more iconically absurd than Vice President's Cheney's description of the Iraqi insurgency as being 'in its last throes,'" writes William Fisher, who suggests that "the real winner in this game of smoke and mirrors will be neither Israel nor Hezbollah."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080906A.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lebanon

Audio and transcript
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14141.htm

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Who Benefits from the Israel-Lebanon Flare-Up?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/hirsch1.html

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Israel's star-spangled arsenal

Much has been made in the US media of the Syrian- and Iranian-origin weaponry used by Hezbollah in the escalating violence in Israel and Lebanon. There has been no parallel discussion of the origin of Israel's weaponry, the vast bulk of which is from the United States.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14237.htm

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US supplies the bombs that break the law: 'That's the nature of the relationship,' says White House

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4863/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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60+ Including 34 Children Killed by Israeli Attack on Qana
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0731-07.htm

Global Outrage Greets Israel "War Crime" in Qana
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0731-02.htm

Massacres at Qana: When "Never Again" Needn't Apply to Lebanon
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0731-24.htm

Qana Bombing Aftermath
http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0731-04.htm

Robert Fisk Reports From Lebanon on the Israeli Bombing of Qana

What’s going on in southern Lebanon is an outrage. It’s an atrocity. The idea that more than 600 civilians must die because three Israeli soldiers were killed and two were captured on the border by the Hezbollah on July 12, my 60th birthday -- I’ve spent 30 years of my life watching this, this filth now, you know -- is outrageous. Real audio

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14294.htm

Qana Again: Israel says it was a mistake

They said the same in 1996 until a video recorded by one of the UN soldiers was handed to The Independent veteran Robert Fisk proved that an Israeli 'drone' was flying low over the base. They knew it was full of refugees and still they bombed it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14289.htm

The moral culpability for Qana

AntiWar.Com
by Pat Buchanan

08/01/06

Today, we hear unctuous statements about how Israel takes pains to avoid civilian casualties, drops leaflets to warn civilians to flee target areas, and conforms to all the rules of civilized warfare. But Israel's words and deeds contradict her propaganda. As the war began, Ehud Olmert accused Lebanon, which had condemned Hezbollah for the killing and capture of the Israeli soldiers, of an 'act of war.' Army Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz publicly threatened 'to turn back the clock in Lebanon by 20 years.' Gillerman, at a pro-Israel rally in New York, thundered, '[T]o those countries who claim that we are using disproportionate force, I have only this to say: You're damn right we are'...

http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=9453


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

48 Hours Not Enough As War Crimes Continue
http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0731-03.htm

US Cease-fire Rejection May Be "Missing Response" From 1983
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0731-26.htm

The World Has to Stop This Slaughter If A Democratic Lebanon Is to Have A Future
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0731-29.htm

How Can "Terrorism" Be Condemned While War Crimes Go Without Rebuke?
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0731-28.htm

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Disaster In The Making

By Charley Reese

You can observe three important things simultaneously in the Middle East: One, Israel's total disregard for the lives and property of the Arab people; two, the effectiveness of the Israeli propaganda machine; and three, the utterly craven support for Israel by the U.S. government.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article14251.htm

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Israelis Rain Down Deadly DU On Lebanese Civilians
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/infowarsnews/message/992



Israeli Justice Minister: IDF Entitled to Kill Everyone in South Lebanon

Ramon made these comments on Israeli Army radio. He was apparently not asked about the IDF’s practice of blowing up the cars full of civilians fleeing south Lebanon.

http://tinyurl.com/fkng3



Criminalizing Civilians

Look at this logic: since Israel has asked civilians to leave, any that disobeyed have forfeited their status as civilians.

http://www.juancole.com/2006/07/criminalizing-civilians-patrick.html


From Information Clearing House



The "hiding among civilians" myth

The analysts talking on cable news about Hezbollah "hiding within the civilian population" clearly have spent little time if any in the south Lebanon war zone and don't know what they're talking about. Hezbollah doesn't trust the civilian population and has worked very hard to evacuate as much of it as possible from the battlefield.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article14252.htm

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As Toll Rises, Lebanese Resort to Mass Graves

In Tyre, Lebanon, citizens are burying the dead in mass graves. The government hospital had run out of room for human remains by Friday. More than 100 bomb-wrecked bodies were already crammed into poorly refrigerated container trucks, and more corpses were pouring in daily.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072206B.shtml



Israel Drops White Phosphorus Bombs, Littlest Victims Suffer

Jawad Najem, a surgeon at the hospital, said patients admitted Sunday had burns from phosphorous incendiary weapons used by Israel. The Geneva Conventions ban using white phosphorus as an incendiary weapon against civilian populations and in air attacks against military forces in civilian areas.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072506A.shtml



Lebanon Bleeds, Iraq Burns, People Flee

Dahr Jamail quotes a conversation with his interpreter: "Habibi, to live in Baghdad now is to live in a big prison," he told me recently, "You stay in your home, and that's it. You only go out when you must. So many are being killed daily, and you only hope that your day to die is not today."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072506Z.shtml

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The wounded cry out for slain loved ones

By Anthony Shadid

"Where's my father? Where's my father?" asked Mahmoud Srour, an 8-year-old whose face was burned beyond recognition after an Israeli missile struck the family's car Sunday. His mother, Nouhad, lurched toward his hospital bed, her eyes welling with tears.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14178.htm



'They are treating us like meat in a butcher's shop'

Outside the hospital, men were nailing shut around 70 coffins for just some of the scores of innocent civilians killed in the previous nine days' bombardment. Among them were the small coffins of 20 children.

http://www.sundayherald.com/56880


From Information Clearing House



Israeli army embarrassed by video broadcast
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14232.htm



Why Is Israel Destroying Lebanon?

By Patrick Seale

Its strategy in Lebanon seems to be to empty the south of its population, driving the Shi'ites out of their traditional homeland, where they have lived for centuries, in much the same way as it continues its pitiless onslaught on Gaza. In Lebanon, some 600,000 people have already been displaced, while the entire country is being brutalized and strangled.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14191.htm



War on Lebanon Planned for at least a Year

The Bush Administration's Grand Strategy and the Birth Pangs of Terror

By Juan Cole

"More than a year ago, a senior Israeli army officer began giving PowerPoint presentations, on an off-the-record basis, to U.S. and other diplomats, journalists and think tanks, setting out the plan for the current operation in revealing detail."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14159.htm



Israel used cluster grenades on civilians

A US-based human rights group has accused Israel of using artillery-fired cluster grenades against a Lebanese village last week during its assault against Hezbollah.

http://tinyurl.com/oydmp

Full HRW Report: Israeli Cluster Munitions Hit Civilians in Lebanon - Israel Must Not Use Indiscriminate Weapons

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/07/24/isrlpa13798.htm



MK Bishara: IDF attacks 'like a nuclear bomb on Lebanon'

Knesset member Azmi Bishara (Balad) has accused Israel of such massive use of force in the conflict with Hizbullah that "it's like a nuclear bomb falling on Lebanon - the whole country is destroyed."

http://tinyurl.com/myp6v


From Information Clearing House



Why Israel Can’t Win the War

The world is witnessing what could be a critical turning point in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Israel is now engaged in a war that could permanently undermine the efficacy of its much-vaunted military apparatus.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14226.htm

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It's hard to imagine something more cynical than the White House exploiting Middle East convulsions -- in which many innocents on all sides are dying in real time -- to divide Americans at home in order to try and squeeze through the Senate confirmation of the pugnacious radicalizer and international de-stabilizer, John Bolton.

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/001553.php


From Information Clearing House

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Bush countenances Middle East violence
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0607c.asp



While Beirut burns
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072106A.shtml



Helplessly hoping

Truthout
by Cindy Sheehan

07/25/06

Who started the cycle of violence in those countries? Who knows? Who cares! The important question is: who are going to be the courageous ones with integrity, wisdom and compassion who are going to at long last stop the absurdity? As hard as I may try, I cannot wrap my mind around the fanatical rhetoric coming out of DC and from all over the world and the mindless and seemingly overwhelming support of Israel's right to 'defend itself.' What Israel is doing in Lebanon by killing hundreds of innocent civilians in a relatively short period of time is like the US defending itself from the tens of thousands of innocent babies, women and children in Iraq. It is morally reprehensible and just an extension of BushCo's campaign to enrich the voracious war profiteers...

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072506J.shtml



Assigning blame in the Middle East

Reason
by Brian M. Doherty

07/25/06

If we start with the assumption that killing people and destroying things is wrong and stop there, we have Israel in our sights. If we complexify it with some uncontroversial utilitarianism -- that we are concerned with the long-term greatest good for the greatest number, and some apparent crimes are justified in accomplishing this, as per Chait in his dismissal of proportionality -- then we can give Israel a bye, on the presumption that without strong action on its part its enemies in the Arab and Muslim world will continue killing Israeli innocents. Complexifying that is the empirical observation that no amount of Israeli toughness seems ever get us to where they've successfully killed people to prevent future killing, rather than just laying the groundwork for the next wave of killers...

http://www.reason.com/links/links072506.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Bush's New Frontier in the 'War on Terrorism'
http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis40.html

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Empire: War and Propaganda

By John Pilger

The US role in supporting Israel’s military assault on Lebanon falls into a pattern of imperial tyranny, where history is rewritten to suit America’s needs while Europe stands cravenly by.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article14211.htm



Lebanon's Children and Israeli Phosphorous Bombs

By Randa Takieddin

Did the American people see on CNN the child whose face was burnt by Israeli phosphorous bombs in Lebanon? Did they hear him screaming in pain at Sidon Hospital, with his mother falling to pieces in agony beside him because of the injury he sustained from the terrible bombs? How can the American people accept their elected President George W. Bush's rejection of a ceasefire?

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article14208.htm



You Can Not Kill Us All

This is a must listen interview with Tina Naccache in Beirut

The Silence of the good people of the United States is deafening! How can they not do anything?

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article14195.htm



Twin wars `a calculated kind of madness'

Israel's twin wars, one in Lebanon and the other in the Gaza Strip, are a disaster, not only for their civilian victims but also Israel itself, as well as for the United States, and the chief cheerleader for both, Stephen Harper.

http://tinyurl.com/eh5pg



Israel's war with Hizbollah part of wider U.S. plan

The United States wants to destroy Hizbollah, partly to prevent it from menacing Israel but also to humble the group's "founding patron Iran and its ally Syria", whose actions Washington says threaten the entire Middle East.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L25902370.htm


From Information Clearing House



Invasion and Resistance

CounterPunch
by Sharon Smith

07/27/06

The Bush administration's rush shipment last weekend of precision bombs to aid Israel's onslaught should be a wake-up call for those on the U.S. left who purport to follow antiwar principles yet until now have failed to take a clear stand against Israeli manifestations of the U.S.' so-called war on terror. To do so requires acknowledging that the U.S.' wars on Afghanistan and Iraq were meant as mere stepping stones in a strategic plan aimed at establishing U.S. and Israeli dominance over the entire Middle East. With the U.S. occupation of Iraq rapidly spinning out of control and descending into bloody civil war, Israel is providing an alternate route toward achieving those shared goals-for U.S. domination over the Middle East ensures Israel's domination as well.Look no further than the mainstream media to verify this revelation...

http://www.counterpunch.org/sharon07272006.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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'How can we stand by and allow this to go on?'

By Robert Fisk

They wrote the names of the dead children on their plastic shrouds. "Mehdi Hashem, aged seven - Qana," was written in felt pen on the bag in which the little boy's body lay. "Hussein al-Mohamed, aged 12 - Qana',' "Abbas al-Shalhoub, aged one - Qana.'' And when the Lebanese soldier went to pick up Abbas's little body, it bounced on his shoulder as the boy might have done on his father's shoulder on Saturday.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14287.htm



The American Guilt
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article14197.htm



The Shame of Being an American
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14128.htm

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Britain criticises Israeli tactics

Britain has dramatically broken ranks with George Bush over the Lebanon crisis, publicly criticising Israel's military tactics and urging the Americans to 'understand' the price being paid by ordinary Lebanese civilians.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14153.htm



UK Assists Israel and U.S. In Killing Lebanese Civilians

US Sending Bombs To Israel Through The UK
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article14203.htm



Bombs bound for Israel came via British airports

Ministers are embroiled in a row over whether British military equipment and airports are being used to assist Israeli attacks on Lebanon.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1199343.ece


From Information Clearing House

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UN Officials: Observers Asked Israel 10 Times To Halt Bombs

By Associated Press

U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon called the Israeli military 10 times over a six-hour period to ask it to halt its nearby bombing before their observation post was hit, killing four people, according to details of a preliminary U.N. report on the incident released to The Associated Press on Wednesday.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article14206.htm



If GoogleEarth can spot UN Observers, Can't Israel Too?
http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/135947


Informant: Eleanor

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Gideon Levy: Stop now, immediately

This war must be stopped now and immediately. From the start it was unnecessary, even if its excuse was justified, and now is the time to end it.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/741435.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lebanon

http://www.alternet.org/story/39152


Informant: ranger116

Die Nutzung von Atomreaktoren hat erheblich schlimmere Auswirkungen auf die Gesundheit und Sterblichkeit der Menschen als bisher bekannt ist.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/index.php?pageID=6&news:oid=n5696

Diese Woche wird in München beim Filmfest Al Gore's neuer Film "An Inconvenient Truth" ("Eine unbequeme Wahrheit") gezeigt.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/index.php?pageID=6&news:oid=n5709



Wieder ein Rekordhitzesommer?

Schon wieder ein Jahrhundert-Hitzesommer? Wir hatten doch erst, im Jahr 2003, einen Rekordhitzesommer.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/index.php?pageID=6&news:oid=n5704



WWF: Häufigere Hitzewellen sind hausgemacht

WWF fordert erneut einen Nationalen Allokationsplan, der den Klimawandel mildert, und warnt vor katastrophalen Waldbränden.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/index.php?pageID=6&news:oid=n5706



Alpen in 100 Jahren ohne Gletscher?

Steigen die Sommertemperaturen um 3 Grad Celsius, verlieren die Gletscher in den Europäischen Alpen 80 Prozent ihrer Eisfläche.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/index.php?pageID=6&news:oid=n5675



Hitzewelle führt zu gefährlich hohen Ozonkonzentrationen

Die andauernde Hitzewelle hat die bodennahen Ozonwerte in besorgniserregende Höhen schnellen lassen. Greenpeace fordert Fahrverbote zum Schutz der Menschen.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/index.php?pageID=6&news:oid=n5705